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Monday Sep 21, 2009

It is really great that there are people (and companies) who are giving their source code back to the community. We are pleased that there is now a new contributed connector available - Replicon WebTimeSheets Connector for provisioning users to Replicon TimeSheets resource.

Big thanks goes to Robert Jackson from Nulli Secundus who is an author of the Connector - you can also check his blog entry about his experience developing the identity connector.

Monday Jun 08, 2009

Almost every Identity Connector implements the SchemaOp operation - working with Schema might be sometime a bit cumbersome, but we can use the Connector Framework serialization feature to make it more convenient in some situations.

Thursday Apr 23, 2009

This is what we think is one of the biggest advantages of Identity Connectors - it is not bound to any specific identity product. Still not seeing any advantage? How about this - with two small jar files you can (for example) create/update/delete/search users in resources like MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, LDAP or DB2 without even knowing single method of the resource API, moreover using the same Identity Connectors JAVA API! Let's see how to do that...

Friday Apr 03, 2009

This post introduces the Connector toolkit, a plugin for Netbeans IDE.
The plugin aims to ease to start off a new connector project and
demonstrate basic structure of a connector. More advanced users would reuse the ready-made Ant script.[Read More]